A Work in Progress

This site holds a set of theological documents that are, deliberately and without apology, unfinished. They are the working notes of one person trying to read Scripture carefully and be shaped by what it actually says: not a finished confession, not a teaching authority, and not a position I am asking anyone to adopt.

What this is

A set of connected documents, built slowly and in order:

• Verse-by-verse commentaries on books of Scripture. These are worked in sequence, and now and then one is opened ahead of its place when a question it answers is too load-bearing to leave waiting.
• A Systematic Theology that gathers what the commentaries establish into ordered topics.
• A Confession of Faith that states, as plainly as I can, what I currently believe the text requires.

The intended direction is that the commentaries drive the theology, the theology refines the confession, and the confession guards the commentaries against drift. The text is the ceiling; the consensus of the early church is a floor against private novelty; nothing binds unless it survives direct contact with the apostolic text. The Systematic Theology and Confession in their unfinished state have been removed from public view until they are developed to a spot I’m comfortable with.

Finding your way around

What is available at any given moment is listed in the menu at the top of the site, so that list stays current as the work grows. This page does not try to keep its own catalog, on purpose.

What this is not

It is not authoritative. It is not the position of any church, and it is not offered as teaching.

Why it’s anonymous

Not to hide. The point is that the positions should stand or fall on whether they are faithful to the text, not on who wrote them. If something here is wrong, it is wrong regardless of the author; if it is right, the same.

How it changes

The work moves as I work through the texts. When a position shifts, it shifts because I came to believe the text required it.

Read accordingly: as one believer’s working-out, in the open, still in motion.